foothills

plural of foothill

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Noun
  • Set in the country's highlands, La Ruta de Las Flores is a scenic drive that connects several villages, and bursts to life when the coffee fields lining it come into full bloom.
    Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The final section may prove anticlimactic for some, given the fleeting images captured of elephants believed to have inhabited the highlands for 5,000 years.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Having breathed in the fresh air of the mountains, affirmed his love for his girlfriend, and taken in the beautiful view, Daniel all but forgets about his fight with his mother.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Here at Lake Garda, guests of Grand Hotel Fasano can indulge in water skiing, windsurfing or paddleboarding on calm waters, while also hiking or biking through the mountains that surround the lake.
    Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Agroforestry’s potential Arabica coffee, the most common variety sold globally, naturally evolved as an understory shrub, performing best in cooler tropical uplands with good drainage and often partial shade.
    Paul Mwebaze, The Conversation, 2 Sep. 2025
  • It's located in northern Arizona, encompassing about 278 miles of the Colorado River and adjacent uplands.
    Olivia Rose, AZCentral.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Watling notes that Sky Ranger can deal with a wider range of threats out to higher altitudes, and that Sky Sentinel works best when networked with other systems whereas Skyranger operates fine on its own.
    David Hambling, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The report, which covered May 2023 to June 2024, states that Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) were seen across a wide range of altitudes.
    Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Afternoon temperatures topped out in the 80s to mid 90s at lower elevations to the upper 60s and 70s at higher elevations.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • However, the 49ers' elevations for the Seahawks matchup point to good news for the star running back.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The film is manually wound through the camera via hand knobs at either side, with a frame counter keeping track of how many exposures have been taken.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Check the base of the beater shaft, rims around the motor housing, ventilation openings, and control knobs and switches.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Solar prominences are enormous loops of hot plasma that erupt from the sun's surface, tethered by magnetic fields.
    Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2025
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“Foothills.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foothills. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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